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#373 – Manolis Kellis: Evolution of Human Civilization and Superintelligent AI

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The Challenge of Alignment in AI

On the path to optimize, it seems like any function you try to optimize eventually leads you into a lot of trouble. It's very difficult as the more intelligent it becomes to anticipate the unintended consequences of a fixed objective function. And again, when we think about alignment, we should be really thinking about it as let's think of the greater good, not just the human good.

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